Larry Grant Jones, a USMC Vietnam War veteran and Silver Star recipient, died March 2 at his home in Tuolumne County. He was 78. Jones earned the Silver Star in July 1968 by saving more than 20 of his ...

In early April of 1968, President Lyndon Johnson ordered an operation that demanded the cooperation of the Marines, the Air ...

Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller presents the Navy Cross to Neily Esposito, daughter of Cpl. Stephen E. Austin, in Alexandria, Virginia, July 21. Cpl. Austin was killed in 1968 ...

Forest Hope hasn’t had a nightmare about his 18 months in Vietnam for the past 35 years, but he said that doesn’t mean he’s done processing what he experienced there. He served in the Marine Corps and ...

PIEDMONT, S.C. — On New Year’s Eve 1968, just before the dawn of 1969, two Marines were holed up in a bunker in the Marble Mountains of Vietnam. Rockets and mortars were raining down all around Master ...

A decade ago, Mark Bowden's publisher suggested he write a book about the Vietnam War. "I'm not really a military writer," the journalist and author says, "and I didn't particularly want to be ...

A U.S. Marine carries an American flag as he charges across a rubble-strewn courtyard in the old citadel in Hue, South Vietnam, in Feb. 1968 during the Vietnam War. The Marines secured the flag atop a ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March 3, 1968: Two Marines watch as smoke from a burning supply pit that received a direct hit by North Vietnamese artillery rises into the sky. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ ...

User-Created Clip July 10, 2018 2016-04-23T22:16:19-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a97/20160423221827003_hd.jpg1968 Marine Corps Film on Vietnamese Refugees ...

South of Da Nang, South Vietnam, Nov. 25, 1968: A marine of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division gunner sits atop his mud-crusted track vehicle. The marines are part of ...